It is important because in 1836, during the Texas Revolution, somewhere around 200 rebels including Davy Crockett and James Bowie held out against 1,800 Mexican Soldiers under the command of Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator at the time, for thirteen days.
The Portuguese introduced sugar plantations in the 1550s off the coast of their Brazilian settlement colony, located on the island Sao Vincente. The Portuguese first developed sugar plantations that relied on African slaves on islands ... sugar had become the principal crop and enslaved Africans were three times as ... While slaves usually did not work in
No one knows the true reason for the mysterious decline and fall of the Mayan civilization but many believe that it was because the Maya had exhausted their environment and surroundings to the point that it couldn't sustain a large population anymore. This would have caused all the Maya to abandon their cites or die off. Again this is just a popular theory of scholars but the answer is that no one really knows. All that is for sure known is that the Classic cites were soon abandoned and the Maya region collapsed. Hoped this helped.
It was Russia that experienced a major revolution in the twentieth century, since in 1917 the communist Bolsheviks overthrew the Tsar of Russia because they felt that workers were being treated unfairly.
